Grimspoon
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Nov 19, 2006
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Last night I had a nasty computer crash (comp in signature) while playing L4D. I was OC'd to 3.8GHz, so immediately I went to bios to reset my settings to default.
During the process I noticed garbage on my screen during post, and when I got into bios and was seeing random characters / garbage all over the screen.
I don't know what to make of this.
Another bit of info that might hint at what's going on; the previous night I was also playing L4D, and while my system didn't crash, my video card was getting extremely hot. I normally keep my 4870x2's fan speed at 45% while in game, but this wasn't enough and and my card automatically increased it's fan speed on it's own to compensate.
I checked my temps and while my first GPU was showing normal-high temps, under 100C, the MemIO sensor (through Everest) was registering at 145C!
I immediately cranked my fan to 100% - but kept playing.
One other note, I'm using a modded bios.
Please help me figure out what to do.
During the process I noticed garbage on my screen during post, and when I got into bios and was seeing random characters / garbage all over the screen.
I don't know what to make of this.
Another bit of info that might hint at what's going on; the previous night I was also playing L4D, and while my system didn't crash, my video card was getting extremely hot. I normally keep my 4870x2's fan speed at 45% while in game, but this wasn't enough and and my card automatically increased it's fan speed on it's own to compensate.
I checked my temps and while my first GPU was showing normal-high temps, under 100C, the MemIO sensor (through Everest) was registering at 145C!
I immediately cranked my fan to 100% - but kept playing.
One other note, I'm using a modded bios.
Please help me figure out what to do.
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